Wednesday, July 17, 2013

Walter White Wednesday 64

The countdown continues! It's now less than a month before we start seeing new episodes - which are the final eight episodes - of Breaking Bad. AMC has started whetting our appetite a bit - in his latest post, my co-author has written about (and linked!) the "WTF?" super-short teasers that tell us nothing, but make us eager for more! Episode titles and one-sentence synopses have just been released for this final half-season - you might not want to know, so click the link, but be warned! I don't think anything is spoiled here, but you might have a different idea of what constitutes "spoilage." (I will say this much - the picture that goes with this post is from the first episode, titled "Blood Money." Well, that could go in all sorts of directions!)

AMC has put an embargo on reviews until July 29, so you can find things out before the official premiere date of August 11, but how much and how accurate may be questionable. I don't have any advance notice of what will happen - I'll be breathlessly watching along with everyone else on August 11 - and I'm getting more and more excited to see what twists and drops Gilligan & Company have planned for Walt, Jesse, and the rest of the Breaking Bad circle!

And remember that TODAY, JULY 17 is the final day to enter to win the kick-ass "Ride with Bryan Cranston to the Breaking Bad Premiere in an RV" contest! Click here for details and go support an good cause and (just maybe) win an amazing prize!!

Yes, trust me - I know that the Breaking Bad finale was last night - fear not, thoughts on that are coming for "Walter White Wednesday...

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K. Dale Koontz may have watched too much television as a child. She learned to count via Sesame Street and first learned that genres could cross-pollinate through M*A*S*H. When she discovered Joss Whedon's Buffy the Vampire Slayer, the die was cast. In 2008, McFarland published her book Faith and Choice in the Work of Joss Whedon which focused on themes such as redemption, choice, and consequences in Whedon's work up to that point. (She's fairly sure Volume 2 could be written to include Dr. Horrible, Dollhouse, and The Avengers.) She is a founding member of the Whedon Studies Association (a great group of people, but don't mention Twilight. Just sayin'). She has presented original work on the Rossum Corporation in Dollhouse, Kitty Pryde, and Japanese anime. In 2014, she and co-author Ensley F. Guffey worked with ECW Press to publish the critically-acclaimed Wanna Cook? The Complete, Unofficial Companion to Breaking Bad. Her most recent project was to team again with Ensley and ECW to publish A Dream Given Form, which is the only guide to all the canonical works in the Babylon 5 universe. That book is currently available for preorder and will be released in September of 2017. Dale is available for speaking engagements and only occasionally uses puppets in her presentations.

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I have long been interested in storytelling - how we do it, why we do it, and what happens when we mix things up. This interest might be the result of being born and raised in the American South, a region that has long celebrated the involved story over the quick answer. Television - the good stuff, anyway - does this brilliantly. Far from being film's red-headed tacky cousin, good TV lets characters and relationships build slowly and often mixes up genres, so horror is next door to humor and fantasy rubs shoulders with procedurals. This blog focuses on both the "good stuff" being broadcast that catches my fancy (with a special emphasis on Babylon 5, since that's the book that's in the process of being written right now) as well as film. The films are usually new releases being watched for TV19's weekly Meet Me at the Movies, although I reserve the right to veer off into classics and under-appreciated gems as well. Older posts cover what my introduction to film class was up to - currently, I'm not teaching that course, but who knows what the future may hold.